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? *.) L. l'ur about a mile ul^n}; the Mississippi a! St linn. , . . b..., ds iin.l lar paper. This is the new subdivision hulliui.d' ... . l'hn~ "inl'lie ? "'"I' squ'" "" ?"* "/ ,h* MISKtaslnpi Where li?.i,u ,? ,.. r >.n.l . lUidren ph.v. Ti,. tegniph shows one of tiie shacks where a family of six. ineludim: u,?,. ehildre,,. their home. ' 'Depression Flats," New St. Louis SuMivS . ?WJ , n lsion Plan to Take Gold From Sea Fails Berlin. ? The fantastic scheme of | German scientists to pay Oermany's rvpa ?' i"i? debt with gold from tin* j ? n lias been abandoned. | I - r more than eight years Profes- ' sor Wilhelm Schlenk ??f the chemical j institute ??f the Berlin university re vealed. Merman scientists carried en exb-nshe research in all the oceans of (lie world in an attempt to extract gold from sea water. J Hope Is Abandoned. "Our last hope of winning gold from j sourrt s other than mines has j been definitely abandoned." Professor Schlenk declared to Universal Serv- | ice. ' The idea of extracting gold from j the o< ..in sprang up during the in Hat ion fieri od when the gold question was so burning. A number of ships equipped with the latest scientific In struments and modern laboratories j carried Germany's most prominent sci entists to all corners of the world. "A. -cording to Arrenlus, the per centage of gold in the ocean would havt been adequate to warrant ex tracting it. Hut our expeditions found that Arrenlus was wrong and that only a s:i til fraction of the amount of gold he claimed to have found in ocean wa ter actually existed. Hard to Extract. "Hut even if Arrenius bad been right, it would be practically impos sible lo isolate the precious metal, owing to its extremely irregular dls Immigration Tide to United States at Ebb Washington. ? Fewer immigrants are now being admitted than at any time du ing the last 100 years, and immi gration has ceased to be "an economic menace,'* William N. Doak, secretary of labor, has announced. < >nly one immigrant Is entering the tTnifed States where live were admit ted a year ago and thirty in 1914. Mr. I>oak declared. Swelling the outward time of migration, there were more than 1^.000 aliens deported in the fis cal year just ended on June 20, he ! said. Mr. I)oak recommended that con fess raise the educational require- I meats for admission to citizenship. ( Toe many persons are gaining citi zenship who do not comprehend its re sponsibilities, he said% also significant In its declaration thafc "there are now signs of improvement in employment conditions." Owl "Hypnotizes" Man; Claws Out One of Eyes Edmonton, Alta. ? "Hypnotized" by a vicious mother owl, which clawed his face and bo<Jy, Albert Hughes <?f Wainwright, Alta., was at a hospi tal here after an operation for removal of his right eye. "I was walking underneath a tree." said Hughes, "when the owl suddenly fluttered from her nest. I didn't tight hack or run. I couldn't. All I could see was those two big eyes. I was hypnotized." Asked If He Wants to Go to Jail, Mute Says "No" Seattle. ? William Leonard. twenty ihree. was taken to Police court, ciarged with begging. He professed ? he deaf and dumb. Court attaches tried various ruses, attempting to ?ake him talk, but all failed until 'tdge John B. Gordon suddenly caught ?3 eye and asked, "Do you want to to Jail?" Leonard quickly replied He was escorted to a cell J trihution. font rary to general be | lief, ocean water is not a specific so 1 ut ion, but a continually changing mix ture. "Water from the polar regions con tains an entirely different percentage of salt, chemicals arid minerals than I water from the tropics. "And gold's peculiar :n--leeular for mations in ocean water ?>iT? r an add ed difficulty in extracting it. We found veritable 'gold streams.' specific cur I rents which contain a higher percent - j age of gold.** Lipstick Once Classed With Witchcraft Art l.ondon. I ?? ut lip>'ick was once a punishable tilTcnse iii l-.tigiand. ac cording to lu\ Margaret Fishenden, scientific investigator in the depart ment of selenitic and industrial re search. Cosmetics were introduced into Kng land hy the knight crusaders, she de clared In a radio broadcast on ''Chem istry and the Housewife." In 178(1, she said, it was decreed that any woman who should "seduce, or betray into matrimony any of his , majesty's subjects by scents, paints or cosmetic washes should incur the I penalty of the law in force against witchcraft and that the marriage, upon conviction, should stand null and void." More German Food Served in Paris Cafes Paris. ? The ever increasing number of 4?ermaus frequenting Montmnrtre and Montparnasse, the two gayest night haunts of Paris, has caused res taurateurs and cafe proprietors to sub stitute tJerman dishes for American ones served as specialties. In former years the restaurant men catered to Americans with breakfast foods, "hot dogs" and baked beans. The decrease in Americans has re sulted in the appearance of tJennan dainties. i i i : i 1 i i i i i i I I i i 1 i i i > ? Petrified Rattlesnake Found on Mountain ?? \\ ? ?stlh-ld, Msiss. Kvidenee ??f ?? 1 ** wli:tt ?nav have Iwn a prehis ' ' ! torie rattlesnake has twcii found ?? mii Mount Teko. [[ I*' Tin* apparently petrified rep- ** .. tile ;l|i|n;;rs oil till* face if H .. "? ' lift a score of feet from the ** j .. n?':t rest footpath. Scientists who ?? have viewed it .estimate that It j j ?? was a! <?ut seven feet long aial | four iiir.hes in diameter. I . . " " 1 T-H I 1 1 I-I -M I I I i 1 1 i I i H 1 1 1 !? " Gen. Washington Knew P-nch of "Hard Times" Washington. Ceorge Washington arrive<l at his home from the Itevolu tionar\ war pi ictically "broke." re cent letters reveal. Me s.*ii* his motlier 1J> guineas with the explanation .nat these were all le had and th;?t they were due some one else. "I now hav? demands upon me for | more than tt-HMuld ??f which is due for the t :i x of 17Sd. and 1 know not where or when 1 shall re<-elve one shilling with which to pay it." Motorist Arrested When He Offer:- Chief a "Hip" (Juiiit.t. M;i~> l i.iiil, larrHI was , : motoring through I'ohasset when he stopped his < ar to ask a pedestrian for a match. A uirl companion of Farrell offered the stranger a drink. The stranger, who proved to he Police t'ldef 11. J. ivilctier. arrested Karrell. In court Farrell was lined $1U0 for driving. Eagle Believed to Have Attacked Child Killed Tazewell. Va. John Murray, a farm er, killed an eagle at llorsepen that ' had a spread ??f TS inches from tip to tip. It Is believed I hat it was the same eagle that attacked a child re- 1 ; cently. The bird was found drinking ^ from a creek when shot. Jean Karges. No. 2. winner of the one-mile annual rolling championship race in Paris is accepting the congratulations of Paul Kustache. No. 1, the champion of last year, wliu finished second In Ihis race, only '-t) yards be hind the winner. KNEW THE TRICKS "You know, mum." said little Hec tor. "Mad must have Iwcn up to all sorts of mischief when he was a boy like me." "Wh:ii makes you think so. my si'nV" asked his mother. (lector looked very thoughful. "Well." lie went on. "he always knows exactly what questions to ask me when he wants to know where I'm going ami what I've been doing." ONE OMISSION X(jk I I ? M / v t? "1 asked your father and lie said you were ohl enough to know your own mind." "lie didn't tell you bow old 1 was. did lie?" Out of Order Mrs. Murphy I've just asked Mrs. Smith ow or ole man't get tin' on. and orl 'or sed wuz. ** *E's oui of or der." Does 'er mean 'e's had? Mrs. Jones ? No. 'e ain't had 'Er's 'ad that sayin' orf theni broken slot mi sheens. It's swank, an* means that 'e won't work. ? London Answers. A Little Hint Smith ? What are you cutting out of the paper? Jones ? A report of a man who got a divorce because his wife went through his pockets. Smith ? What are you going to do with It?" Jones ? Put it In my pocket.'* A Bad Spirit Count Felix von Luckner, famous "sea raider" of the Cerman navy, ended a toast at a banquet In New York with the words: "The nautical spirit in many a country is like the wife in many a marriage ? a helpmate' lirst. afterwards a checkmate.** MATCHED HER DRESS Ityters Kramp ? 1 saw Miss Mill yuns buying my new book yesterday. Clerk ? Yes. she said the color of the binding just matched her new lounging robe. Such Paper Is Warming Professor -Science has discovered that paper can be used effectively to keep a person warm. Farmer ? Yes. 1 gave a 30-day note once and it kept ine in a sweat for a month. ? Capper's Weekly. The Haven First Clubman? After all. if It wasn't for our wives, would either of of us be where wo ar now? Secor.J Clubman? Quite right. Isn't that what clubs are for?? The Humor ist. Atmosphere "I think they might strain the or ange peel from this orange marraa late." "That is put in as a guarantee of good faith." ASK YOl'R DRL'GGIST FOR St. Joseph's and you'll get Packed in moisture proof Cellophane to preserve the purity tiri(f| full strength of each tablet WORLD'S LARG EST SELLER at IOC St.Joseph's GENUINE PURE ASPIRIN Pneumatic Tire* for Trains A railway Train runnin;: ??u the ; rails with wheels fiticMi with pneu matic tire* st'fiuv hardly believable, i hut a tiro inarm fan urer lias made ex ! periments which show that tliey J make the t r;- ins run silently and far | more smoothly, and that f reedonj I from jotiinc will lengthen the life of i the rails. The directors of the biR French railways saw experiments carried out recently, iind tests with i passenger roaches will be made. For over 50 years it has been the household remedy for all forms of 3^" It is a Reliable, General Invig orating Tonic. Malaria Chills and Fever Dengue Improved Hospital Call A in w hie;, .it hospital rail bells: The patient pushes a button which Kixnals a nurse at a telephone switchboard ; ami then, talking into a sensitive microphone by the bed side, tin* patient tells the nurse what I* wanted, the nurse's responses in the eonvcrsat ion coming back via a loudspeaker in the hospital room. Sulphur Soap Skin cropiinnn. oktmItb Perspiration, iiimcI Ml?s. 33/1 ( I "re rrlh'ved ilonrc by this r*? Sulphur frcvhinc. tH-aatlfrinc |. .lot m<l l?aUi tutp ih-M fur Soft, Clear Skin Rohliind 9 Styptic Cotton Sflc Roosevelt Memorial An obelisk will he erected this summer in Montana at the summit of Marias p;is* as a memorial to Theo dore Roosevelt. The marker will rise : sixty feet in the air at the point where the Roosevelt highway crosses the continental divide One Salesman to Another "l'?.n t \ou find it hard |o sell your ; goods iii a town where they aren't | known?" ?'Yes. hut it's harder in u town i where they arc." Role ?*1 can only give you a thinking part.** -Sir? - ?*I'.ut this Is Ibsen. It requires deep thinking." The Punster 44 What makes you think the auto mobile has influenced etnre?** ??Well, haven't you noticed the number of flats?" i The Final Grinders ??Which teeth does a person get last?" "False ones, teacher.** There i* little complaint from a really broken heart. Ten minutes of good luck Is enough, if it Is the right kind. BOIL WORTH $25 Grandmother always said tli is. Mostof ; us willing to pay !?> get rid of boiL Get 50c box GARBOlL from your : druggist today. Stops pain immediately, j Heois worst oo?l olien overnight. Good for sores, stints. bites, ctc. Get ('.it-boil ? today. No use to suffer. Spurlock-Neal I Co^ Nashville, Tcnn. SWELLING REDUCED ; And Short Breathing relieved when i caused by unnatural collection of . water in abdomen, feet and legs, j and when pressure above ankles j leaves a dent. Trial package FREE. | COLLUM MEDICINE COMPANY Dept. A, Atlanta, Ga. j W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 31-1931.
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